The term sexual anorexia is one (amongst many) that causes a fair bit of conflicting discussion in the addiction treatment and therapy field. For some the term trivialises the more serious eating disorder conditions by seeking to give credibility to a behavioural pattern that is not pathological. For others the two conditions share similar characteristics […]
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This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Mark Drax about recovery from problematic sexual behaviour and behavioural addictions. See the embedded link below. Mark is a recovery coach based in London, speaker and board member of The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH). In the interview Mark chats about his personal
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This week I had the pleasure of catching up with Bill Herring, a certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT) in Atlanta. We spoke using video conferencing technology, he in Atlanta and me in London, and discussed his new framework for treating problematical sexual behaviour. Bill has been a counsellor and psychotherapist for over 25 years and is
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Yesterday I chatted with Dr Mary Deitch, President of SASH, about working with clients suffering with problematical sexual behaviour. I first heard Mary speak at the Farley Center when she presented on understanding the basics of problematical sexual behaviour. (See the slides for that presentation here). In the interview we discuss how to identify problematical sexual behaviour
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The term ‘half-nighter’ has been recently coined to describe supposed new behaviour that is essentially a one night stand, without staying the night. None of this is new, however, as people have been having casual sex and departing before the sleep bit for donkey years. What might be new is the increased prevalence of ‘half-nighters’ when
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Sex addiction is a term that typically produces wide ranging views from, on the one hand, some psychiatrists, who argue that there is insufficient evidence for the term to be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual on Mental Disorders, to others in the therapeutic community, notably Dr Patrick Carnes and Paula Hall amongst others, who acknowledge
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In this interview Dr Patrick Carnes chats to Joe Polish, founder of the Genius Network about sex addiction, neuroscience and the most effective treatment for addictive behaviours. I have listened to this interview, usually as an mp3 file on my phone, many times and always seem to learn something new each time I listen to
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